Category Archives: community projects

Festival Education Programme

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We are delighted to announce partnerships with Leamington Art Gallery & Museum, Warwickshire’s Adult & Community Learning, Heritage Education, the County Record Office and Roman Alcester, which will enable us to deliver a comprehensive festival education programme with events for all ages, from young children to adults.

A few features of the education programme so far:

  • Trunks & Tales: a Foundation/Key Stage 1 workshop exploring the history of the elephants in Leamington, in partnership with Adult & Community Learning for families with children aged 7 and under
  • ‘History Detectives’: Key Stage 2 school workshops in partnership with Adult & Community Learning
  • Art Cart: history-themed fun learning events at the Leamington Art Gallery & Museum for families
  • Meet a Roman Soldier and Explore Leamington’s Roman Past: for adults and children in conjunction with Roman Alcester and the Warwickshire Historic Environment Record
  • Secret Leamington: an opportunity for adults to explore documents about the history of Leamington held behind the scenes at the County Record Office

 

 

Festival Volunteer Programme

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Heritage Hosts

We are delighted to have received funding from the South Leamington Community Forum for the first stage of our festival volunteers programme, Heritage Hosts, enabling residents of South Leamington to help organise and run the festival.

South Leamington residents are invited to an introductory workshop on Thursday 24 November at 6-7.30pm at the Brunswick Healthy Living Centre in Leamington, to find out more about the festival volunteer programme.

There will be opportunities for volunteers to:

o        deliver and/or steward events

o        develop festival policies   

o        market and promote events

o        liaise with event venues

o        review events for the media

o        record and photograph events

If you live south of the river in Leamington and would like to be involved, contact Jenny (jennystjohn1@gmail.com or phone 01926 774373) and/or come along to the introductory workshop on Thursday 24 November.

NB We are planning to involve North Leamington residents later in the year and would be happy to hear from those living north of the river too.

 

 

 


 

NEW History Festival for Leamington

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Leamington Looks Back: 26 May to 10 June 2012

Leamington’s inaugural history festival from 26 May to 10 June 2012 will bring together local groups and commercial ventures to celebrate our diverse community history.